Stenhouse, 25, has won the past two Nationwide Series championships since Keselowski won that series title in 2010.

Buescher, 22, is coming off a Camping World Truck Series championship this season.

For those two drivers, not only watching Keselowski gives them confidence they could be in the same position in a few years, but racing Keselowski in the Nationwide Series has shown them that they have also the ability.

Keselowski started his Nationwide career driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports before winning the 2010 title for Penske Racing while running the Cup and Nationwide schedules in the same season.

Keselowski's title "gives us confidence that, yeah, you can do that and you can go out and be young and not have the experience that everybody else has and still get the job done," said Stenhouse, who will replace 2003 champion Matt Kenseth in Roush's No. 17 car.

It's not just Keselowski's championship that Stenhouse plans to remember as he ventures into Cup.

"I saw Brad struggle his first year in Cup trying to figure things out and I feel like he learned what he needed to learn," Stenhouse said. "Then they brought (crew chief) Paul (Wolfe) in and they started working together again and they had that relationship from the Nationwide side."

Keselowski finished 25th in the Cup standings with just two top-10 finishes in 2010 before finishing fifth in the 2011 Chase. Wolfe took over Keselowski's team in the middle of the 2011 season.

"It isn't about having the best mechanics or tire guys, it is about having a team that works well together," Stenhouse said. "You have to have the best of everybody out there and have a team that believes in each other."

Buescher agrees.

"It shows that if you can surround yourself with people that you know you can work with … perform with and put yourself in good equipment, anything is possible," Buescher said.

"The situation has to be right to do something like Brad did and do something like we did (in trucks). It definitely makes me confident we can go win championships in the others series as well when we do move up."